Here is the next entry in my series of photo posts of me making the various recipes in my recipe collection.
This week, I took photos while I made more bran muffins for my mom, using a recipe I’d found on allrecipes.com and which so far I have not yet which I have now (20210214) converted into my own format. As a side note, I should I have now converted it to my usual recipe format, because when I make them, I use regular milk instead of buttermilk, and I normally make a major change: Instead of placing the batter into twelve muffin papers in a twelve-welled baking tin, I bake the batter in a six-welled baking tin (with slightly larger wells), lined with coffee filter papers, and the baking time was adjusted to 22 minutes.
This batch of muffins had a further deviation from the recipes above, which was the intentional omission of raisins for reasons beyond the scope of this post.
First, I measured out a cup and a half of wheat bran into a mixing bowl:
![](https://www.malak.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/01branmeasuredoutinbowl.resized.jpg)
A cup of milk was added to the bran:
![](https://www.malak.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/02addingmilktobran.resized.jpg)
The bran and milk were mixed with a fork, and put aside:
![](https://www.malak.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/03mixingbranandmilk.resized.jpg)
A third of a cup of vegetable oil was measured out and placed in a separate bowl (the white dots are milk leftover in the measuring cup):
![](https://www.malak.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/04oilmeasuredoutinseparatebowlwhitedotsaremilkfrommeasuringcup.resized.jpg)
A large egg was added to the vegetable oil:
![](https://www.malak.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/05eggaddedtooil.resized.jpg)
Two thirds of a cup of packed brown sugar were added to the oil and egg:
![](https://www.malak.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/06brownsugaraddedtooilandegg.resized.jpg)
A teaspoon of vanilla extract was added to the vegetable oil, egg, and brown sugar:
![](https://www.malak.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/07addingvanillaextracttooileggbrownsugar.resized.jpg)
The vegetable oil, egg, brown sugar, and vanilla extract were blended with a fork:
![](https://www.malak.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/08oileggbrownsugarvanillamixedtogether.resized.jpg)
The vegetable oil, egg, brown sugar, and vanilla extract were added to the bran and milk mix:
![](https://www.malak.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/09oileggbrownsugarvanillamixaddedtobranandmilk.resized.jpg)
All the ingredients were blended together with a fork:
![](https://www.malak.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/10oileggbrownsugarvanillamixblendedwithbranandmilk.resized.jpg)
A teaspoon each of baking powder and baking soda were added to a cup of flour — unfortunately, I forgot to add the quarter teaspoon of salt, to no apparent ill effect.
![](https://www.malak.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/11bakingpowderbakingsodaaddedtoacupofflourIforgotthesalt.resized-1.jpg)
The flour, baking powder, and baking soda were mixed together in the cup, and added to the rest of the ingredients:
![](https://www.malak.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/12flouraddedtomix.resized-1.jpg)
Again, all the ingredients were blended together with a fork. At this point, I would normally have added three quarters of a cup of raisins, which I didn’t do this time.
I make double sized muffins for my mom, so I use coffee filter papers, for which I use a glass to help form within the baking tin:
![](https://www.malak.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/14formingcoffeelinersinbakingtin.resized.jpg)
The batter was spooned into each of the wells:
![](https://www.malak.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/15muffinbatterincoffeeliners.resized.jpg)
The muffin tin was placed in a counter-top convection oven preheated to 350F, and baked for 22 minutes (rotated 180 degrees part way through):
![](https://www.malak.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/18muffinsbaking.resized.jpg)
The muffins were taken out of the oven after 22 minutes and placed on a cooling rack:
![](https://www.malak.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/19muffinsstillinbakingtincoolingonrack.resized.jpg)
After a few minutes, the still cooling muffins were taken out of the baking tin, and returned to the cooling rack to continue cooling:
![](https://www.malak.ca/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/20muffinscoolingonrack.resized.jpg)
Once cooled, I placed the muffins in a sealed container.
Mom was so impressed, she said that the following morning, she would have one from this batch, before eating the last muffin from the last batch!